"A middle-aged novelist is on his way to a meeting of writers held at a luxurious villa isolated from the world. Within this dreamlike atmosphere, he falls prey to nightmares in which his beloved--but often rebellious--children and other artists are threatened by the violence of our world. Of all the books in Marie-Claire Blais's masterful novel cycle, A Twilight Celebration is the one that examines the prophetic side of the writer and the burden that falls to him in a world whose fate is yet to be determined."--